For the girlies who loved The Hunger Games at 13, Red Rising is the spiritual sucessor for an adult audience, with a dystopian society who brutalizes their young.

And I mean *brutalizes*. This book is dripping blood and violence and I swallowed it up. And the best part is that it does it all without it just being meaningless action. All the bloodshed only reinforces the themes of how far you should go for change and how cruelty is banalized for the status quo.

Darrow is an incredible main character and the narrator for the audiobook makes his pov come alive. It's filled with emotion and compassion without painting him a flawless hero.

Overall, Red Rising was one of my best reads of the year and definitely got the spot as my favourite dystopias ever.